Iran asks Muslim world to cut ties with Israel, boycott products,
Gaza genocide continues as Israeli strikes martyr 6,546 Palestinians since Oct 7,
Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Munir Akram demanded the immediate opening of the Aid Corridor to Gaza.
Addressing the Security Council meeting, he said that Pakistan demanded an immediate and unconditional ceasefire.
He warned that Israeli aggression could lead to a wider and more dangerous conflict.
Muneer Akram lamented that the ceasefire resolution could not be passed, placing heavy responsibility on those responsible for escalating the conflict.
“Continuation of the Israeli campaign in the Gaza will lead to further massive civilian casualties and could trigger a wider and more dangerous conflict,” the Pakistani envoy told the meeting addressed by a total of 86 speakers from countries and regional groups – including more than 20 ministers – that pushed the conflict to the centre of world geopolitics.
In his speech to the Security Council, Ambassador Akram conveyed Pakistan’s full support and solidarity with Palestinian brothers and sisters in these tragic and challenging times.
Israel’s relentless and indiscriminate bombardment of Gaza over the last 17 days has killed more than 5,000 people and injured another 15,000, the Pakistani envoy said, “strongly and unequivocally” condemning Israel’s airstrikes and military actions in Gaza, particularly attacks on schools, residential buildings and hospitals.
“These Israeli attacks on civilians, civilian objects and infrastructure, blockade of water, food and fuel as well as the forced transfer of people from the occupied territory, are flagrant violations of international humanitarian law and amount to war crimes.,” he said, adding, “Those responsible for these atrocity crimes must be held accountable.”
Ambassador Akram regretted the Security Council has been unable to issue a call for a ceasefire. In this regard, a heavy responsibility rests on those who contribute to the prolongation of this conflict, he said.
“Any attempt to create a false equivalence between Israel, the occupying power, and the Palestinians, the victims of this occupation, is untenable – legally, morally and politically,” he added.
Akram demanded that the Council must reject Israel’s attempts to displace the Gazans, within or outside Gaza.
Under international law, he said, the struggle of people living under foreign occupation for self-determination and national liberation is legitimate and cannot be equated with terrorism.
“It is the suppression of this struggle, which is illegal,” the Pakistani envoy said, pointing out that throughout history, colonial powers have portrayed national liberation movements as terrorism.
“Some in this Council have offered protection to their allies who are oppressing occupied peoples in Palestine or Kashmir,” he said.
“Under the UN Charter, States have the right of self-defence against attacks on their sovereignty and territorial integrity. Yet, a State, which is in forcible occupation of a foreign territory, cannot invoke the ‘right to self-defence’ against those whose territory it has illegally occupied,”
Ambassador Akram added, “The perpetuation of Israeli occupation will not bring peace to the Holy Land. Durable peace will emerge from the internationally agreed two-state solution and from the creation of a secure, viable, contiguous, and sovereign state of Palestine on the basis of the pre-June 1967 borders, with Al-Quds Al-Sharif as its capital.”
Last week, the Security Council failed to adopt two previous draft resolutions addressing the escalation in the Middle East. The first from Russia calling for an immediate ceasefire, failed to get enough votes, while a Brazilian draft was vetoed by the United States. Although it called for humanitarian pauses for aid access, the US determined objected to the fact it did not mention Israel’s right to self-defence.
The UAE minister HE Reem Al Hashimy joined Arab foreign ministers in an Arab Group press stakeout at the headquarters of the UN.
The Group also emphasised that the war’s continuation will only lead to more destruction and will not bring anyone security or peace. Furthermore, it recalled the need for justice for the Palestinian people by granting them their right to establish their state on the June 4, 1967 borders, highlighting that this conflict did not begin today, nor did it begin this month, but rather that it is the occupation that continues to oppress the Palestinian people.
The ministers reiterated the unity of the Arab position and announced that there will be further joint efforts to address the war and the threat it poses to regional security.
The Hezbollah chief has met leaders of the Palestinian groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad, al-Manar TV reported.
Hassan Nasrallah met Hamas’s deputy leader Saleh al-Arouri and Islamic Jihad chief Ziad al-Nakhala, to assess what their alliance must do to “achieve a real victory for the resistance” in Gaza, the Hezbollah-owned channel reported.
“The meeting … assessed the positions taken internationally and what the Axis of Resistance must do”, a headline on al-Manar said, referring to an alliance of Iran, Syria, Palestinian armed groups, Lebanon’s Hezbollah, and other factions.
Eight Syrian Army soldiers were martyred and seven others sustained injuries at dawn as the Israeli occupation forces attacked several sites in Syria’s Daraa countryside.
State-run SANA news agency cited a military source as stating that at around 01:45 at dawn, the Israeli enemy carried out an aerial aggression from the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting several military sites in Daraa countryside.
‘Israel’ frequently attacks the positions of Syria’s military and its allies since 2011, when the Arab country found itself in the grip of rampant foreign-backed violence and terrorism.
While,
Iran on Wednesday asked Muslim countries to cut diplomatic relations with Israel and boycott the products over the country’s siege and relentless bombing of the Gaza Strip,
Gaza is being bombed by the occupation forces after the resistance group Hamas launched a surprise attack on October 7, breaching Israel’s defence.
Israel has put the strip — home to 2.3 million people — under siege while local authorities reported killings of more than 5,000 Palestinians. About 40 percent of the people killed are children, Gaza’s Ministry of Health said a day earlier.
Thousands of buildings have been destroyed, and more than one million people displaced in the territory, which has been under siege and largely deprived of water, food and other basic supplies.
Hamas’s attack in southern Israel killed at least 1,400 people, mostly civilians, according to Israeli officials.
Speaking exclusively to ARY News, Reza Amiri Moghaddam – Ambassador of Iran to Pakistan – regretted that the international community has turned a ‘blind eye’ to Zionist atrocities in Gaza.
“Even hospitals and mosques are not safe from Israel’s relentless bombing,” the Ambassador said, noting that Israel’s attacks on Gaza were against the principles of international, humanitarian and war.
Reza Amiri maintained that Israel’s brutality in Gaza Strip was more “ruthless and widespread than ever”.
He urged all the Muslim countries, which have established relations with Israel, to cut their diplomatic and economic ties and boycott the country’s products.
The Iran’s Ambassador further said that all Muslim countries should open their borders to help the Palestinians – which have suffered from the Israeli atrocities.
“The position adopted by Muslim World on Palestine is good but insufficient”, he opined, expressing gratitude to Pakistan for not recognising Israel.
Ambassador Amiri also said that Saudi Arabia and the regional countries were aware of the fact that United States (US) is not the same power as it was before.
He also regretted “lack of coordination” among Muslim countries amid the Israel-Hames conflict, saying that the greater coordination across the Muslim world could have stopped the Zionist regime from commit this barbarity.
Iran has frequently criticised the role of the United States, which has boosted its military presence in the Middle East since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas. The Iranian president had already called on October 12 for Muslim and Arab countries to join together to “stop the crimes” of Israel.
Earlier,
At least 6,546 Palestinians, including 2,704 children, were killed and 17,439 wounded in Israeli strikes since October 7, the health ministry in Hamas-controlled Gaza said on Wednesday.
In the past 24 hours, 756 Palestinians including 344 children were killed in Israeli strikes, the ministry said.
The ministry said, “The massacres took place in the southern region of the Gaza Strip.”
Talking about the health system, the ministry said the attacks targeted and damaged 57 institutions, and that 73 medical staff were killed and 25 ambulances were now out of service.
